config DEVFS_FS- bool "/dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"+ bool "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help This is support for devfs, a virtual file system (like /proc) which@@ -780,6 +780,13 @@ Note that devfs no longer manages /dev/pts! If you are using UNIX98 ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS).++ Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,+ <http://http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.+ It has been striped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for+ legacy installations that use it's naming scheme which is+ unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations+ use.